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Article: Municipal Auditorium set to receive a major facelift
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 12, 2002
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
In the world of Charleston performance halls, the Municipal
Auditorium has been cast in the long shadow of the attention-
grabbing $86 million Clay Center.
But the 3,483-seat Municipal Auditorium is getting ready to
undergo a possible $4 million to $5 million facelift that will allow
it to carve out a niche among performance groups that don't want to
shell out big bucks to book the Clay Center, officials say.
The renovation work will include aesthetic changes and technical
improvements, Civic Center Manager John Robertson said.
Mayor Jay Goldman said the money for renovations would come from
the city's municipal budget, but donations from some art aficionados
might lessen ...